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It can be used as a text for advanced problem-solving courses, for self-study, or as a resource for teachers and students training for mathematical competitions, and for teacher professional development, seminars, and workshops.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in creative problem-solving in mathematics…. It has already taken up a prized position in my personal library, and is bound to provide me with many hours of intellectual pleasure. Skip to main content Skip to table of contents. Advertisement Hide. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. Mathematical Olympiad Challenges. Front Matter Pages i-xvii. Front Matter Pages Geometry and Trigonometry. The questions contained in this volume are definitely problems by this definition.

The authors have gathered many problems that have appeared as part of the Mathematical Olympiad and offer a glimpse of the challenge faced by the competitors. As a regional director for the American Mathematics Competitions AMC-8, and this reviewer is often asked why students should participate in these competitions. My typical response is that such competition stimulates mathematics students to think "outside the box". The problems one sees on these examinations are not your typical textbook exercises and the problems in this volume represent a good sample.

Where might this text be used? One important audience is the high school teacher who wishes to stimulate interest in mathematics by challenging students with some difficult but accessible problems.

This might be to help them prepare for a mathematics competition or it may just be for fun. While these problems originate from a competition among high school students, the problems contained within will be a challenge to some of our brightest college mathematics students, and even for college faculty.

I could foresee this volume being used in a number of ways at the college level. Secondly, an institution could use these problems to help prepare a team for the Putnam competition. What did I like about this book?

The format of dividing the problems into three broad categories can be helpful to faculty who are looking for problems for specific courses. I am also pleased that complete solutions were given, but the solution is not immediately after the problem. In fact, one could just read the solution section and learn a lot about mathematical problem solving.

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